Best 389 quotes in «classic quotes» category

A wise man knows; learn from others, never get complacent and know where the classic old dangers come from.

But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.

Classical ballet will never die.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates.

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

Classic music will always come across better on the ice because skating has such a rich history, rooted in tradition.

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Can you tell the difference between them?

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

But my everyday music is classic rock. It’s what I relate to the most and where my heart is.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Don't knock finding nemo," Xavier teased, taking the DVD from my grasp. "It's a modern classic." "Is it seriously about fish?" "Yeah, but really cool fish.

Do you still throw spears at each other?

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

Do people trip over you?

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better understand Native peoples, it is a must read. For those who don't wish to understand, it is even more so.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.

For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking constituency, constructing an enemy that's really scary. It's war. And when you look at the anti-gay campaign, it's a classic case of war rhetoric: demonstrating an immediate and extreme danger.

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable.

For the most part you are dealing with jealousy, you are dealing with love, you're dealing with hatred, you are dealing with revenge and all of these sort of classic things.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!

Frankly, from my perspective, the bomber jacket is such a classic item you can wear it even when it's not on trend.

Honey, I just forgot to duck.

I absolutely love Oscar. So classic. So timeless.

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal." Right now I'm very into chic, classy looks. Chanel is one of my favorite brands; they really capture what a classic woman is.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

I am a classic 'Star Trek' fanatic.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.